Good idea to use fuel additives?
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Good idea to use fuel additives?
Two questions:
1)My car needs to pass emissions this month, what should I do to get it ready? Also, is it a good idea to put that "pass emissions" fuel additive in it?
2)When I finally get this thing on the drag strip, would it be ok to use an octain boost additive and 92 octain gas?
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1)My car needs to pass emissions this month, what should I do to get it ready? Also, is it a good idea to put that "pass emissions" fuel additive in it?
2)When I finally get this thing on the drag strip, would it be ok to use an octain boost additive and 92 octain gas?
Thanks!
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1)My car needs to pass emissions this month, what should I do to get it ready? Also, is it a good idea to put that "pass emissions" fuel additive in it?
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2)When I finally get this thing on the drag strip, would it be ok to use an octain boost additive and 92 octain gas?
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Re: Good idea to use fuel additives?
Originally posted by AZ85RX7
Two questions:
1)My car needs to pass emissions this month, what should I do to get it ready? Also, is it a good idea to put that "pass emissions" fuel additive in it?
Two questions:
1)My car needs to pass emissions this month, what should I do to get it ready? Also, is it a good idea to put that "pass emissions" fuel additive in it?
2)When I finally get this thing on the drag strip, would it be ok to use an octain boost additive and 92 octain gas?
Thanks!
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octane is in the fuel to prevent it from igniting before the spark plugs fire (detonation)
Racers use high octane fuel to prevent this from happening because they ether run high boost or have a high engine compression ratio. In your case, unless the above aplies to you, its gonna give you nuthing at all and theoreticaly makes your fuel harder to burn.
Racers use high octane fuel to prevent this from happening because they ether run high boost or have a high engine compression ratio. In your case, unless the above aplies to you, its gonna give you nuthing at all and theoreticaly makes your fuel harder to burn.
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well then, my theory was shot to ****, But now i can save some money and fill up with ell cheap'o gas (85 is the lowest at the place that I goto, here i was dumping an extra 10 cents into every litre for 91. For shame..
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Originally posted by 4ohfour
here i was dumping an extra 10 cents into every litre for 91. For shame..
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here i was dumping an extra 10 cents into every litre for 91. For shame..
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They sell 85octane at upper alitudes due to the lower air density up there, kinda like natural octane boost because thiner air makes the combustion slower. Cars that normally run 89 can go to 87 and cars runnin 93 can go to 89 safely up above 4000ft. With the thinner air at high alitude the the amount of air is ofcourse less and less fuel is used. Thats why engines that make about 100hp near sea-level will make 75hp at 11,000ft because less air is fed in. If your running boost, this doesn't work out the same way ofcourse. ..you just run your normal octane.
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